It was confirmed though that Hoffman was the only one to have voted for it and that Hoffman voted against it.
————-
No evidence linking shootings to vote about immigrant health care
Before a suspect was named, conservative X users circulated theories based on the lawmakers' recent votes.
The X account "Right Angle News Network," which purports to share reliable conservative news,
posted that Hortman and Hoffman "both recently voted against their party, with Hortman supporting repeal of free healthcare for illegals and Hoffman joining Republicans in the Senate to pass it."
That post was wrong.
Although Hortman was the only Democrat who
voted with Republicans to pass a budget bill that will remove adult immigrants in the U.S. illegally from the state's MinnesotaCare health program, Hoffman
voted against the bill that would end such coverage.
After an hour, Right Angle News Network posted
a correction.
But X users reposted the claims and Grok, X's artificial intelligence tool,
repeated the falsehood about Hoffman. And some, including Collin Rugg, co-owner of conservative news site TrendingPolitics,
theorized on X that Hortman's vote was linked to her killing.
In 2019, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reappointed the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of Minnesota state legislators to a workforce development board. Conservatives baselessly said that implicated Walz in the killing.
www.pbs.org